Have the pop-over ads gone nuts here or what? I got no problem with ads, but these things make it almost impossible to navigate the site. Not only do they pop up one after another with no time in-between, but they steal focus from the underlying page so you can't do things like edit a post, click links, etc.

Is anyone else having this kind of problem? Is there some setting I'm missing in IE that will alleviate this? Like I said I have no problem with an ad popping up when I navigate to a page, but not like ten of them in a row, and I can't do anything until I hit the ad's "close" button.

Don't forget to get some catsup with that puppy. Puppies without catsup just don't taste right.

My family has had a long tradition of having puppy for Christmas dinner. They don't take as long to cook as a turkey or ham, and though you do have to gut and skin them, that natural puppy flavor (no hormones!) is worth it.

I've always disdained "bought" puppies, though. The best way is use a pickup truck, a fly rod, and a hook baited with a Milk-Bone(tm). You just drive through any suburban area very slowly (like trolling for bass), and cast your line every few minutes. There's nothing for a pure rush like the sound of an excited "puppy on!" from a happy "puperman" - and you don't even have to wear waders!

And if the catch is very good, you can look forward to leftovers well into the New Year.

I installed this thing a few weeks ago. It writes literally thousands of entries into your registry. If you use a registry cleaner like Norton, it sees these as being "orphaned" and wants to delete them, which in turn makes the editor crash. And when you uninstall the editor, it does not clean-up after itself.

Softimage could have done a much better job here - this thing acts like some kind of hack-job in-house software (can you say "Radiant"?), not a subset of a quality retail product.

"The ability to keep units still and pass on your movement turn in land combat is sorely lacking. And land based cannon are mentioned in the manual but apparently missing in the game, which really hamstrings the city militia."

You can keep units still and skip turns - there are three layers of controls, and you press "shift" to get the set for doing these things. You can also retreat, change unit facing, etc. You attack land-based cannon by sailing past the town's fort and hitting "space". The fort will also attack you if your relationship with the nationality is bad enough.

The author obviously didn't read the manual, and didn't catch-on to why the "shift" and "control" keys are displayed above the on-screen menu.

Also it's "Sid Meier", not "Sid Meiers". There are other inaccuracies in this review, but those are the two that bugged me the most.

I wanted to send the author an email to point this stuff out so he could edit it, but he witheld his email address from his profile on the site.

Whoever Hip Games are, they obviously aren't what you'd call very imaginative. This is why most licensed games suck - if they didn't have an idea of their own what to do, how can they come up with good ideas for how to do it?

We live in a time when fundamentalist christians are in power in Washington and so making a movie that has references to "Hell" and "demons" would be a bad move politically.

I mean this is Hollywood we're talking about here - the people who can take any good, edgy material from another medium and turn it into pasty, inoffensive crap. If they re-made "Moby Dick" today, they would have to take out the parts with harpooning the whales to avoid conflict with animal rights nuts. The whalers would be talking the whales into making small "oil donations".

I predict this movie will be crap because Hollywood is crap. All they make is crap. Look at how they made Arnold into a kinder, gentler Terminator in the sequels.

id will get their licensing money up-front, and I doubt they are crazy enough to invest in this thing. Todd H. will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Don't wanna get those fundamentalists pissed by sticking to the original storyline! Why then they'd picket the theaters and it would be all over the news - and who wants that kind of free publicity that will get people into the theaters?

Don't wanna get those fundamentalists pissed by sticking to the original storyline! Why then they'd picket the theaters and it would be all over the news - and who wants that kind of free publicity that will get people into the theaters?

To root for Vivendi, who are a bunch of corporate scumbags, or to root for Valve, who are the most arrogant and greedy developer on Earth...

Both were assholes here. Vivendi for wanting to make a buck off Valve's product outside the stipulations of their distribution contract. And Valve for setting a small precedent that they can control how, where, and when their software is used. Could this ultimately lead to something like Valve making a deal with HP that their games can only be played on HP hardware? Or only with ATI video cards? I don't see a good reason for that kind of limitation, but what other kind of limitations that we can't foresee might there be?